Henry Trollope

Henry Trollope

Admiral Sir Henry Trollope, GCB (20 April 1756 – 2 November 1839) was an officer of the British Royal Navy.

He entered the navy at the age of 14. In the American Revolutionary War he served aboard HMS "Captain" and "Asia". He fought at the battles of Lexington (19 April 1775) and Bunker Hill (17 June 1775) and the Siege of Boston (1775–1776). He served with John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore during the latter's campaigns in Virginia and Rhode Island.

In 1777 he was appointed third lieutenant to the fourth-rate "Bristol" and took part in attacks on Fort Montomery, Fort Clinton, Philadelphia and Mud Island.

He was promoted to Post Captain in 1781. Following the peace of 1783 between Britain and the United States of America, he lived in Wales before returning to sea in 1790 as the captain of the 38-gun fifth rate "Prudente".

Trollope, described as "carronade-crazy" in Gardiner's "Warships of the Napoleonic Era," commanded two ships armed entirely with carronades: "Rainbow", a 44-gun frigate with which he stunned the French frigate "Hébé" into surrendering without resistance; and "Glatton", with which he routed a French squadron of four frigates, two corvettes, a brig and a cutter, and drove them into Flushing.

In the mutinies of 1797 he persuaded the mutinous crew of his own and two other ships to return to duty. Later in 1797 he commanded the 74-gun "Russell" at the Battle of Camperdown. For his part in this victory he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath and elevated as a Knight Grand Cross in 1831.

He became Admiral in 1812 and retired in 1815 following the end of the Napoleonic Wars. He committed suicide at Freshford, near Bath on 2 November 1839.

The Captain-class frigate HMS "Trollope" was named for him.

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